Power Hungry Like an american muscle car from the 1970s, the Franck Muller Giga Gong Tourbillon (www.franckmuller.com) is engineered to produce power—excessive amounts of it—not conserve it. Indeed, energy consumption is a touted feature of the brand’s entire series of large-format Giga Tourbillons. This latest entry adds an extra demand on the watch’s four massive […]

As the first large-scale showing of new luxury watches of the year, Geneva’s Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH)—which took place this year from January 20 to 24—is a barometer of new and upcoming trends in watchmaking. And if the products displayed at the 2014 show are any indication, collectors can look forward to […]

While from the front it looks like an archetypical Franck Muller Curvex model, a look at the back of the new Cintrée Curvex 7 Day Power Reserve ($23,200) reveals a surprise. In place of the modern automatic movement that the company builds for many of its simpler men’s watches is a graceful hand-wound caliber of […]

Women can count themselves fortunate that they need no longer choose between a dainty dress piece and a man’s watch that has been shrunken and ringed with diamonds. The best—we have selected four—eloquently express the union of gem-setting and watchmaking arts in a completely individual way. The results are spectacular, meaning they may not be […]

When it comes to complications, Franck Muller’s movement developer, Jean-Pierre Golay, contends that simple can also be innovative. “We wanted to change directions completely,” he says, referring to the watch house’s newest creation, the rather impressively named Giga Tourbillon. “We wanted to create something very simple in the same dimensions as our recent complicated watches. […]